{"id":49389,"date":"2021-06-21T21:31:29","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T20:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=49389"},"modified":"2021-06-21T21:31:29","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T20:31:29","slug":"gbagbo-files-for-divorce-to-end-30-year-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/06\/21\/gbagbo-files-for-divorce-to-end-30-year-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"Gbagbo files for divorce, to end 30-year marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ivory Coast\u2019s former president Laurent Gbagbo filed for divorce on Monday from his wife of three decades, his lawyer said, days after his highly anticipated return to the country.<\/p>\n<p>Gbagbo\u2019s lawyer Claude Mentenon said in a statement that after years of \u201crejected requests for Simone Ehivet to consent to an amicable separation\u201d, the ex-president had asked an Abidjan court for a divorce.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement comes four days after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/06\/17\/ex-cote-divoire-president-gbagbo-returns-10-years-after-exile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gbagbo<\/a> returned to Ivory Coast following a decade\u2019s absence, during which he was tried for crimes against humanity during the post-election conflict of 2010-11.<\/p>\n<p>Simone Gbagbo wielded significant political influence as first lady, and was arrested alongside her husband in April 2011 after he refused to concede defeat, sparking a conflict that left some 3,000 people dead.<\/p>\n<p>Gbagbo was sent to the International Criminal Court in The Hague, where he was definitively acquitted in March after a lengthy trial.<\/p>\n<p>Simone Gbagbo was sentenced to 20 years\u2019 imprisonment in Ivory Coast for \u201cviolating state security\u201d, but was released in 2018 after seven years of detention as part of an amnesty.<\/p>\n<p>Gbagbo\u2019s homecoming comes after his once-bitter rival, current President Alassane Ouattara, embraced his return in the name of national reconciliation.<\/p>\n<p>Laurent and Simone Gbagbo, who have two daughters, married in 1989 and campaigned alongside each other for the introduction of multi-party elections in the 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>The 76-year-old ex-president, has been in a relationship for several years with 47-year-old former journalist Nady Bamba.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ivory Coast\u2019s former president Laurent Gbagbo filed for divorce on Monday from his wife of three decades, his lawyer said, days after his highly anticipated return to the country. 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